Success is a Frame of mind

Walt Disney once said “It’s kind of fun to do the Impossible”… Good ol’ Walt Disney sure knew a thing or two about making dreams come true.

Success is not ao much a Destination but rather a Frame of mind, and furthermore you
may have a lot more success than you give yourself credit for…
Sometime Success is just how you look at things.

I think that Success is overrated, let me explain: I was driving in my car on Sunday, with the radio on, when my mind tuned in to an interview, just as the man was saying: …We need more failure in our lives!
You can imagine that grabbed my attention!

Tom Harpur is a spiritual author and was talking about his new book, “Living Waters”, he was saying how there is so much pressure being placed on us to be successful. The way he saw it you need a little failure now and then to help you grow, to give you some perspective, and maybe even to give help you appreciate the value to that success.

Furthermore he said that experiencing a little failure now and then provided us with a more “Authentic Life”… I found myself nodding my head. You see the expression Authentic life means to live a life guided by integrity and purpose.

Then Jeff Goodes, the interviewer asked Tom Harpur if he could give us an example from his life to show how failure had helped him grow… well of course he gave a chuckle… but he did tell a story of growth.

So we see that a little failure in life can help us to grow into and appreciate of that success.


That story reminds me of one of my favorite quotes, I keep it over my desk, it’s by Linda Aucoin
“When I fall on my face
From time to time
I try not to worry because
I’m still going forward!”

And here’s another quote from an unknown author:
“Life is what happens while we’re busy making other plans”…

Life is in constant motion, we are moving forward no matter what we try to tell ourselves, just look at the Calendar – or even your watch.

Another quote: by Mignon McLaughlin
“What you can’t get out of get into whole heartedly”.

…why even Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher said
“All is flux, nothing stays the same.”
Guess that means that change is a constant? LOL

Since we’re in constant motion, then we are always moving towards something, And that is Progress, and progress is Success.

Now here is where I bring it all together: Success is what you make of it…
It is not a large stone Archway with the words SUCCESS Chiseled and Gilded into the stone.

We have success in all that we do every day. Are you still breathing? Congratulations you are still Alive! That is a Success!

I think it is important to celebrate the success that you have every day, not just the really big things, but the little things, like telling a Happy Bed Time Story, or giving a really Great Hug, Seeing a Fabulous Sun set. That is Success.

If we notice those small successes in life each day, add them together, compound their interest by celebrating them, soon we will see that SUCCESS IS a Frame of MIND.

http://www.tomharpur.com/